Now consider what happens if a cloud service with your only copy of your critical data goes away.
Or consider what happens when your hard drive with your only copy of your critical data goes away.
Sure, you should be backing up your data, especially your critical data, but most people don't. I'd bet that a greater percentage of people not using 'the cloud' will lose data due to crappy backups than the percentage of people using online services who lose data.
The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
Do you have a source for this statement? I play in an orchestra and various forms of RSI are quite common. Various techniques for reducing the occurrence of these type of injuries are a topic of interest in conversation as well as in discussion with teachers and medical professionals.
Looking at Maxmind's latitude/longitude data is also scary. I'm on a dynamic IP, but the latitude/longitude data is only a few blocks off.
Looking at a few other IPs, it seems the location is often your ISPs POP in your city.
They get 1 barrel from 40sq feet of space. At our current rate of 143 million barrels a week it would take 205 sq miles of manufacturing plants to satisfy our current needs. They need a 1000 litre fermenting tank to get 1 barrel(=160 litres)/week. So the prototype setup takes 40sq feet of space, including the control computer. Say in your manufacturing plant you had 100 000 litre tanks (that seems reasonable, a similar size to brewery fermentation tanks), each would have diameter roughly 5 metres (say 5m high). Each tank gives you 100 barrels/week.
Assuming each tank therefore takes up, say 40 sq metres = 430 square feet (that gives you 50% space for access, control, supporting structure), you get 4.3 square feet per (barrel per week) required space. i.e around 22 square miles for total US oil production.
But, since this is obviously not going to supplant all production straight away, better to look at it as (at $50/barrel that is quoted in the article) $600 revenue per square foot per year. Given that industrial rent is probably less than $10/square foot/year the land isn't going to be an issue. Construction cost will but that depends on the technology.
I seem to remember in Australia that in rural areas you are allowed within a certain distance (something like 20 metres) of a water course, allowing you to walk along a river through farmland. Whether or not that still applies, I'm not sure.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that paper journals are the long-term answer. I don't know which journals you read, but pretty much the only time I take a trip to a library to read a paper journal is for quite old articles.
Virtually all journals publish online these days. The exact way articles are presented (paper/online) isn't a huge restructing, it's just a convenience thing.
You were jesting with your suggestions of uses, but what are the chances that someone will buy a chunk who just sees it as the cheapest way to get some processing power/storage/hosting, and use it for some non-evil purpose?
It takes me all of 10 seconds to set up an ssh tunnel, 10 minutes if I need to download cygwin first.
Yeah, but for most kids, that would be completely non-trivial. So if that's the easiest workaround, then the solution would be completely appropriate for almost all parents.
Whilst poor driver education/attitude causes accidents, there is plenty of scientific evidence linking alcohol and speed to accidents. Anecdotes are poor indicators of actual probabilities of having accidents.
Given the same other circumstances (eg. driver education and attitude), the scientific literature is pretty clear that having a BAC of 0.05 approximately doubles your chance of having a fatal crash, and beyond that the probability of crashing increases quickly.
There are also plenty of research papers showing that for every 5km/h (~3mi/h) faster you travel (above some relatively low lower bound - less than the speed limit on pretty much all roads) your risk of crashing also doubles.
Just pulling out all the metal and putting it in one hole, with the plastic and organics in another, or burying similar types of appliances together, would make the landfills that much more attractive to mine later on.
Two things: (a) We already sort it somewhat, into a stream for recycling and a stream for landfill.
(b) If we can sort it now, we can sort it whenever it needs to be mined.
Modern mines, depending on the mineral being mined, can operate economically where the product desired is present in very small quantities. Olympic Dam, Australia mines ore that is about 1% copper and 0.05% Uranium. As technology improves, and the best sites mined out, those numbers will be able to go even lower. Landfill will have an attractively high concentration on minerals, and the toxic stuff can be dealt with, given enough money, just as it is in natural mines.
This technique would not be applicable, since that isn't breaking down polymers. Coal is basically just free carbon.
Coal can be turned into methane, which can then potentially be turned into larger carbons, through various chemical processes. There is a lot of research going on in this field at the moment. One strain of this research hopes to make large-scale methane fuel cells viable, so that large coal power plants (80% efficiency) whilst still using the same initial input (coal).
Methane fuel-cell technology is the main thing holding this back, as for the moment it is completely uneconomic on an industrial scale. It is a long way behind hydrogen fuel-cell technology, because NASA pumped heaps of money into that through their space program.
What happens if we set of a nuke in the upper atmosphere? Will debris be vaporized? Would it cause other problems?
Yes, of course it would cause other problems. It would vapourise some debris, but also cause other debris by destroying a whole lot of the useful satellites up there.
Yeah, I saw this. What if the paintball doesn't even cause a wreck? It will still put paint all over someone's car. The car that doesn't belong to the paintball company, or the government. It doesn't even neccessarily belong to the driver.
In fact why not make it illegal to smoke/eat/drink(non-alcohol)/put on makeup/do your hair/read a newspaper/read a map while driving.
Is it less dangerous to drink alcoholic drinks than non-alcoholic drinks while driving? I can't really be sure, but I'm sure I read a study a while back that actually seemed to say that alcohol might impair your driving. So you might as well ban all drinks, if you're going to ban non-alcoholic ones.
Isn't the whole point of these documents that they are incriminating because they show how they government was spying on people? ie, the important documents are the private ones. So just pulp the lot.
In the article it states that you currently have to pay to get onto the wifi hotspots in Starbucks. I find this odd. Here in Australia, if a cafe has wifi, it is pretty much always free. They figure that it is pretty unlikely you'll use more bandwidth than the cost of your coffee would pay for, anyway.
At my university (The University of Melbourne) students retain all copyrights to their work, unless they are working on a research project sponsored by a private company, in which case a special agreement has to be signed by the student assigning their IP to the University (who then license it to the sponsor as per their agreement). If the student makes an inventive contribution, the head of department may recomment the student share in any royalties the Uni gets out of the project.
For staff, the policy is:
The author of scholarly works created whilst the author is a member of academic staff or a student, honorary appointee or visitor of the University, is deemed to have granted to the University, unless otherwise agreed by the University, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide and irrevocable licence to use for educational, teaching and research purposes only, those scholarly works for the duration of the period in which the intellectual property rights subsist in the scholarly works, whether or not the relevant member of academic staff, honorary appointee or visitor is still employed or engaged by the University, or the student is still enrolled at the University.
but any material that is not 'scholarly material' (teacing materials, lecture notes, etc) is owned by the University.
You kill 2-5 people, you destroy maybe $3000 worth of property
I dunno what suicide-bombing school you went to, but at mine you'd certainly do more than $3000 damage. You break a few windows, thats $1000 easy. A pot-hole in the road would cost at least that much to fix. A few folk with burnt clothes is another thousand. That's before you even do any real damage at all.
To be eligible for the offer students must be enrolled in an Australian university that has a Volume Licensing Agreement with Microsoft.
So, even if you manage to get accredited as a uni, you still have to have a volume licensing agreement with M$. Probably not worth it just to save $1000.
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Now consider what happens if a cloud service with your only copy of your critical data goes away.
Or consider what happens when your hard drive with your only copy of your critical data goes away.
Sure, you should be backing up your data, especially your critical data, but most people don't. I'd bet that a greater percentage of people not using 'the cloud' will lose data due to crappy backups than the percentage of people using online services who lose data.
There is no scheme, legislation or proposal in Australia or any of its states for a national ID card.
There is no scheme now, but only since the 2007 election. The Howard government proposed a de-facto national ID card. It is now scrapped.
This was definitely at least a proposal, see eg The Office of the (Australian Government) Privacy Commissioner. It got far enough that there was an "Office of the Access Card" set up (since closed down, url of www.accesscard.gov.au no longer active).
The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
Do you have a source for this statement? I play in an orchestra and various forms of RSI are quite common. Various techniques for reducing the occurrence of these type of injuries are a topic of interest in conversation as well as in discussion with teachers and medical professionals.
Looking at Maxmind's latitude/longitude data is also scary. I'm on a dynamic IP, but the latitude/longitude data is only a few blocks off.
Looking at a few other IPs, it seems the location is often your ISPs POP in your city.
Assuming each tank therefore takes up, say 40 sq metres = 430 square feet (that gives you 50% space for access, control, supporting structure), you get 4.3 square feet per (barrel per week) required space. i.e around 22 square miles for total US oil production.
But, since this is obviously not going to supplant all production straight away, better to look at it as (at $50/barrel that is quoted in the article) $600 revenue per square foot per year. Given that industrial rent is probably less than $10/square foot/year the land isn't going to be an issue. Construction cost will but that depends on the technology.
Note all calculations are conservative but naive.
I seem to remember in Australia that in rural areas you are allowed within a certain distance (something like 20 metres) of a water course, allowing you to walk along a river through farmland. Whether or not that still applies, I'm not sure.
Maybe. Just like force-feedback controllers, you could put a cooling unit in the controller so your hands get very cold.
You were jesting with your suggestions of uses, but what are the chances that someone will buy a chunk who just sees it as the cheapest way to get some processing power/storage/hosting, and use it for some non-evil purpose?
Given the same other circumstances (eg. driver education and attitude), the scientific literature is pretty clear that having a BAC of 0.05 approximately doubles your chance of having a fatal crash, and beyond that the probability of crashing increases quickly.
There are also plenty of research papers showing that for every 5km/h (~3mi/h) faster you travel (above some relatively low lower bound - less than the speed limit on pretty much all roads) your risk of crashing also doubles.
(b) If we can sort it now, we can sort it whenever it needs to be mined. Modern mines, depending on the mineral being mined, can operate economically where the product desired is present in very small quantities. Olympic Dam, Australia mines ore that is about 1% copper and 0.05% Uranium. As technology improves, and the best sites mined out, those numbers will be able to go even lower. Landfill will have an attractively high concentration on minerals, and the toxic stuff can be dealt with, given enough money, just as it is in natural mines.
This technique would not be applicable, since that isn't breaking down polymers. Coal is basically just free carbon. Coal can be turned into methane, which can then potentially be turned into larger carbons, through various chemical processes. There is a lot of research going on in this field at the moment. One strain of this research hopes to make large-scale methane fuel cells viable, so that large coal power plants (80% efficiency) whilst still using the same initial input (coal). Methane fuel-cell technology is the main thing holding this back, as for the moment it is completely uneconomic on an industrial scale. It is a long way behind hydrogen fuel-cell technology, because NASA pumped heaps of money into that through their space program.
The zdnet blog article is here: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3237
The link to the article all on one page is http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?artic leid=989
Yeah, I saw this. What if the paintball doesn't even cause a wreck? It will still put paint all over someone's car. The car that doesn't belong to the paintball company, or the government. It doesn't even neccessarily belong to the driver.
Be sure to have your system set up so that you can listen in, whenever you're in need of kicks.
Isn't the whole point of these documents that they are incriminating because they show how they government was spying on people? ie, the important documents are the private ones. So just pulp the lot.
In the article it states that you currently have to pay to get onto the wifi hotspots in Starbucks. I find this odd. Here in Australia, if a cafe has wifi, it is pretty much always free. They figure that it is pretty unlikely you'll use more bandwidth than the cost of your coffee would pay for, anyway.
For staff, the policy is: but any material that is not 'scholarly material' (teacing materials, lecture notes, etc) is owned by the University.
Those greedy mining companies will use any excuse to try to find more iron to dig up to make more profit for their greedy shareholders.